Several pieces of Old Amsterdam cheese are currently circling the earth, waiting for Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers to arrive at the ISS space station in around a month’s time, the Parool reports.
Kuipers apparently asked the Westland company to supply the cheese back in April. In addition to regulation food, astronauts are allowed to take limited supplies of their own choice.
Henriette Westland told the paper Kuipers had taken cheese in space before but because this is a longer trip - six months - he wanted to ensure a proper supply.
The point is, there are plenty of ‘ideas people’ out there. But an idea is worth nothing until you execute on it. So if you’re always ‘brimming with ideas,’ stop talking and start doing. Throw it out there and see if it catches on! You never know until you try so you have to put your money where your mouth is. Just learn how to iterate fast.
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Apple and Google have “won,” but in different ways. Apple has huge consumer popularity, a strong and almost unassailable brand and business model, and will certainly continue to expand its sales (perhaps most in China). It delivers a tight, polished package of products and services that constantly updates. Google’s partners sell more phones in aggregate than Apple but have created a vast and fragmented empire with different versions of the OS, cross-device app incompatibility issues, and a slight nagging sensation that Android lacks a cutting edge (with developments like Apple’s Siri pushing this point).
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| — | Finally, a voice of reason. The Smartphone Wars are Over on Fastcompany. |
In general, creative people are more open to new experiences, less conventional and less conscientious, more self-confident, self-accepting, driven, ambitious, dominant, hostile, and impulsive. Out of these, the largest effect sizes were on openness, conscientiousness, self-acceptance, hostility, and impulsivity.
